Map Rendering: What am I doing wrong?

[Proviewpt 1]

seriously none of the methods by these sites help me how to properly instal these maps nothing works, it should be simple just drag and drop and BOOM you have a new region

the scanning method doesnt work nothing happens the sc4 mapper doesnt wortk the maps come up all screwed up and when i load them up its even more screwed what the fuck am i doing wrong?

example nº1 i downloaded this map:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28299-europe

i followed the steps bit by bit

and after putting the config as well on sc4 mapper we get THIS....

 

WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT but okay maybe thats how the program sees it but then when i load it from the game i get this:

 

 

WHAT happened why it doesnt look as is supposed to like the rest of the game

 

so lets try example number 2: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/11385-portugal-with-western-spain/

 

im going with greyscale

and this one is rgb just for fun

 

in game greyscale

 

 

and the rgb...

 

final example: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/16252-o-mega-map/

 

and ingame...

 

 

so i really dont understand what im doing wrong

 

and by the scan method also soesnt work infact nothing happens when i choose the image for the game to renter nothing happens so im at a impasse now, can anyonme help me please i beg you!!

 

 

edit:omg thank you everyone for the advice i wast getting worried now i know its supposed to look like that and i ahve to everything tile by tile is gonna be tedious but at leas now i know its possible thank you very Much!!!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

2 hours ago, Proviewpt said:

WHAT happened why it doesnt look as is supposed to like the rest of the game

^ This is actually how it will look in the game after the region is created. (Goofy, yes. But, as expected.)

Now in the game you need to open each city tile and save it. At that point it will create a new thumbnail image for the region view for that city tile which will include any terrain, water, beach, and rock mods if you have any installed in your plugins.

This is a tedious process to update every single tile this way, but it is how it is.

[Propfam 2,288]

2 hours ago, Proviewpt said:

seriously none of the methods by these sites help me how to properly instal these maps nothing works, it should be simple just drag and drop and BOOM you have a new region

the scanning method doesnt work nothing happens the sc4 mapper doesnt wortk the maps come up all screwed up and when i load them up its even more screwed what the fuck am i doing wrong?

example nº1 i downloaded this map:

https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28299-europe

i followed the steps bit by bit

and after putting the config as well on sc4 mapper we get THIS....

 

WHY DOES IT LOOK LIKE THAT but okay maybe thats how the program sees it but then when i load it from the game i get this:

 

 

WHAT happened why it doesnt look as is supposed to like the rest of the game

 

so lets try example number 2: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/11385-portugal-with-western-spain/

 

im going with greyscale

and this one is rgb just for fun

 

in game greyscale

 

 

and the rgb...

 

final example: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/16252-o-mega-map/

 

and ingame...

 

 

so i really dont understand what im doing wrong

 

and by the scan method also soesnt work infact nothing happens when i choose the image for the game to renter nothing happens so im at a impasse now, can anyonme help me please i beg you!!

You've to manually render the tiles by entering the tiles one by one. No shortcuts here. If you wish a shortcut, use Ctrl+Shift+Alt+R, then select the grayscale image. The downside is no loading dialog appear on the screen. You've to wait the time till finish. And, it can be corrupted by alt-tabbing so no alt-tab this time.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

5 minutes ago, chfzdn said:

The downside is no loading dialog appear on the screen.

And additionally, the grayscale might require a special height modification .dat file.

[RobertLM78 1,597]

Okay - here are three resources to help you out if you wish to take things further @Proviewpt .   I prefer the greyscale method myself, that way I don't have to enter each city tile manually.
 

Both these resources (see the attached archives as well) have helped me tremendously. Here's an example:

 

Creating new regions in SimCity 4 - SC4EVER.COM.zip

SR11UO.zip